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<p><h2>THE HOLY GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. LUKE (CH. 12 : 32-46)</h2>
  
<SUP class="vnum">32</SUP> Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom. 
<SUP class="vnum">33</SUP> Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth. 
<SUP class="vnum">34</SUP> For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. 
<SUP class="vnum">35</SUP> Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning; 
<SUP class="vnum">36</SUP> And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open unto him immediately. 
<SUP class="vnum">37</SUP> Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them. 
<SUP class="vnum">38</SUP> And if he shall come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants. 
<SUP class="vnum">39</SUP> And this know, that if the goodman of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken through. 
<SUP class="vnum">40</SUP> Be ye therefore ready also: for the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye think not.
<SUP class="vnum">41</SUP> Then Peter said unto him, Lord, speakest thou this parable unto us, or even to all? 
<SUP class="vnum">42</SUP> And the Lord said, Who then is that faithful and wise steward, whom his lord shall make ruler over his household, to give them their portion of meat in due season? 
<SUP class="vnum">43</SUP> Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing. 
<SUP class="vnum">44</SUP> Of a truth I say unto you, that he will make him ruler over all that he hath. 
<SUP class="vnum">45</SUP> But and if that servant say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin to beat the menservants and maidens, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken; 
<SUP class="vnum">46</SUP> The lord of that servant will come in a day when he looketh not for him, and at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him in sunder, and will appoint him his portion with the unbelievers. 

<p>Glory to God forever. <b>Amen</b>.

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